Capital accumulation, technological change, and the distribution of income during the British Industrial Revolution

The paper reviews the macroeconomic data describing the British economy during the industrial revolution and shows that they contain a story of dramatically increasing inequality between 1800 and 1840: GDP per worker rose 37%, real wages stagnated, and the profit rate doubled. The share of profits i...

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主要作者: Allen, R
格式: Working paper
出版: University of Oxford 2005